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Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright


peter wilkinson: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: DY - I’m replying to the previous two posts in one - because the website won’t permit me to reply to them separately!   Response to Post 1 Your first post, containing... (27/02/2010 - 18:49)
peter wilkinson: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: Still continuing with the copied versions of posts which the site does not recognise as actual entries! PW Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright by DaveY - 27/02/2010 - 14:51 On Wright on... (27/02/2010 - 17:50)
peter wilkinson: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: Thanks, DaveY, for a detailed response and questions to my comment: ‘I didn’t read anywhere in the book that things will need putting right after Christ comes again’. To... (26/02/2010 - 19:10)
peter wilkinson: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright by DaveY - 25/02/2010 - 21:27 (DaveY - you need to re-enter your registration onto the site; your posts are appearing in read-format, but do not appear as... (26/02/2010 - 18:24)
john doyle: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: Certainly the description of the church in Acts 2 sounds communistic. I think one of the potential benefits of a more collective interpretation of Christianity is that virtues reside not just in... (25/02/2010 - 15:12)
peter wilkinson: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: Wright refers to ‘emotivism’, using that term, and his contrast of this with externally based rules as a guide for behaviour sounds similar to MacIntyre. The comment about the Marxists is... (25/02/2010 - 13:15)
peter wilkinson: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: I didn’t read anyhere in the book that things will need putting right after Christ comes again. I’d imagine that Wright’s response to the comment about babies/infants ... (25/02/2010 - 13:05)
peter wilkinson: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright by DaveY - 24/02/2010 - 22:34 (I re-entered this comment, as it seemed to have encountered a glitch whereby I couldn’t reply to it - peter ... (25/02/2010 - 12:37)
john doyle: Re: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: I haven’t much to say about this report, since I’ve not read the book, other than to note that a few years ago I read Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue (1981). MacIntyre contrasts... (25/02/2010 - 07:25)

Sir Toby Redivivus?


john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: [Surely one can in good conscience stop doing something good, no? Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien, dit Voltaire.] (27/02/2010 - 18:13)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: [A very shocking dereliction of duty!] (26/02/2010 - 19:11)
john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: [Aside: It’s been nearly six months since the Proprietor of this establishment has written a substantive post on this website.] (25/02/2010 - 18:34)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: ‘Spottiswoode, Thynne and Cringe - Purveyors of Counselling and Therapy to Academic Theologians since 1892’ was the inscription on a brass plate on the door of a building... (25/02/2010 - 15:31)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: The clientèle of the fabulous Dubai race course were a mixed lot, eclectically dressed in Arab head-dresses and robes, as well as morning suits and top-hats, their female companions in... (24/02/2010 - 14:29)
john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: I like the choice of amontillado. And “mansuetude, if not man Friday” — clearly the author is back in the saddle. (22/02/2010 - 18:35)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: DUBAI - Dubai’s Meydan Grandstand and Racecourse, the venue of the world’s richest horse race, will host the season’s first race tonight, UAE media reported on Thursday... (22/02/2010 - 17:51)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: The ornate ormolu clock standing on the mantlepiece of the richly veined Italianate marble fireplace chimed the hour, and the coat-tailed, white-gloved butler appeared, as if summoned by bells,... (22/02/2010 - 17:19)

Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth


john doyle: Re: Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth: One of the reasons I’ve reframed my Genesis 1 reading I mentioned on a recent thread elsewhere. I don’t want to justify the accuracy of my reading by intense scholarship; preferring... (25/02/2010 - 17:01)

NAZNET = MORE UNITARIAN THAN NAZARENE


Jacob: Re: NAZNET = MORE UNITARIAN THAN NAZARENE: No, I guess he doesn’t want one. (24/02/2010 - 00:09)
john doyle: Re: NAZNET = MORE UNITARIAN THAN NAZARENE: So I’m guessing that you wouldn’t be interested in a NazNet promotional pen? (23/02/2010 - 21:24)

On the Importance of Evidence for an Emerging Faith


john doyle: Re: On the Importance of Evidence for an Emerging Faith: Here’s a link to a fascinating 2009 NYTimes article speaking to the three-umpires scenario. An excerpt: Before this season, Major League Baseball outfitted the last of its ballparks with... (23/02/2010 - 18:07)
Jacob: Re: On the Importance of Evidence for an Emerging Faith: To be honest, I don’t remember why exactly I referenced the umpires.  I don’t recall removing it.  However, I am familiar with an umpire analogy.  It goes something like... (23/02/2010 - 05:13)
john doyle: Re: On the Importance of Evidence for an Emerging Faith: And so we meet again, my friend. I’d not paid close attention to your POV until our discussion on the Dawkins post, which is one of the more stimulating conversations I’ve had on the... (23/02/2010 - 03:54)

Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith


Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: But where’s the context that gives their actions meaning?  As it stands, there actions lack any context and seem absurd. Toward what purpose are their actions directed?  Who are... (22/02/2010 - 23:29)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “Alternative exhortation: Get over yourself. The universe was here long before you showed up, and it will still be here long after you’re gone. Have a look around.” My... (22/02/2010 - 23:19)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: Nope, it turns out I can’t stop. So there are these three guys standing around a jar full of marbles. “I wonder how many marbles are in the jar?” asks the first guy. The second... (22/02/2010 - 22:30)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: It was rather beautiful, wasn’t it (lol)? Sometimes beauty can emerge even from interpersonal disagreement. “Falsification is an ongoing conversation—not a magical method that... (22/02/2010 - 21:41)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: In an odd way, what you write is beautiful.  What we have at base are commitments, judgement, and a varying sense of self.  Bitter as you may be, your writing here is part of who you... (22/02/2010 - 19:36)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “this is not problematic at all.” “Discoveries come and go.” “You offer one; I have read others.” I posed four issues that frighten me about... (22/02/2010 - 17:24)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: It seems pointless to argue that worldviews are or are not coherent.  The coherence of any world view is an empirical matter that one can observe being narrated and performed.  I... (22/02/2010 - 15:30)
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